AATSEEL
 
 

AATSEEL Annual Meeting

27-30 December 2005, Washington, D.C.

Preliminary Program


The preliminary program published in the AATSEEL newsletter was current as of October 2, 2005. This web publication reflects ongoing changes to the program. In case of discrepancies, the web version of the program should be considered authoritative. If you are interested in chairing a panel which currently lacks one, please contact the Chair of the Program Committee, William J. Comer (wjcomer@ku.edu).


 

The AATSEEL Constitution restricts participation in the annual AATSEEL meeting to members in good standing.  In conformity with this requirement, on 1 November all persons listed in the Preliminary Program who are not current members of AATSEEL (or who have not received a membership waiver) will be eliminated from the final program. All persons listed on the program must preregister for the conference by 30 September. The preregistration deadline for all other attendees of the conference is 30 November, although attendees may also register at the door. Preregistration information was mailed to all AATSEEL members in August. It is also available on the web at: http://www.aatseel.org.  Please direct renewals, registrations, and inquiries to Kathleen Dillon, Executive Director, AATSEEL, P.O. BOX 7039, Berkeley, CA 94707-2306. Office phone/fax: 510-526-6614, email: aatseel@earthlink.net

 


 

Non-Panel Events

 

December 27

AATSEEL Program Committee (5-7 p.m.)

AATSEEL Executive Council (7-10 p.m.)

Conference Registration (5-7 p.m.)

 

December 28

Conference Registration (7:30 a.m.—7 p.m.)

SEEJ Editorial Board Meeting (9:30-11:30am)

Meeting of Language Program Coordinators (12:15-1:30p.m.)

Conference panels

Exhibits (9 a.m.—4:30 p.m.)

ACTR Board Meeting (5-7 p.m.)
International Association of Teachers of Czech (7:00 – 9:00 pm)

Middlebury College Reception (9 p.m.)
Indiana University Alumni and Friends Reception (9 p.m.)

 

December 29

Slava/Olympiada Breakfast (8—10 a.m.)

Conference Registration (7:30 a.m.—5 p.m.)

Conference panels

Exhibits (9 a.m.—4:30 p.m.)

AATSEEL Business Meeting 10 a.m.

Keynote Address: 11:00am

ACTR General Membership Meeting (5:15 p.m.-6:30 p.m.)

AATSEEL President's Reception/Awards held jointly with ACTR at Russian Embassy, 7pm

 

December 30

AATSEEL Executive Council (7-10 a.m.)

Conference panels

Exhibits (9 a.m.—noon)

AATSEEL Program Committee (12-1 p.m.)

 

 


Panels

 

(The title of each paper links to the abstract.)

 

Note: Equipment requests are noted in parentheses following the panelist’s name.

CP=Computer projector

OP = Overhead Projector

CD=portable audio cd/tape player       

VCR or DVD includes a television)

 

 

December 27 7:30PM

Special Event: Theatrical Performance: Isaac Babel

Performer: Andrei Malaev-Babel (Stanislavsky Theater Studio)

 


December 28 Session A: 8:00-10:00

28A-1 Workshop: The Job Interview

Workshop Presenters

Arlene Forman, Oberlin College

Elizabeth Skomp, Sewanee: The University of the South

Joseph Peschio, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Michael Gorham, University of Florida

Seamas O’Driscoll, Northwestern University

 

28A-2 Panel: Nikolai Gogol

Panel Chair: Paul A. Karpuk, Central Connecticut State University

Panelist:          Maksim Klymentiev, University of Southern California

Title: The Dark Side of the Nose: The Olfactory in Nikolai Gogol’s Works

Panelist:          Elizabeth M. Sheynzon, Northwestern University

Title: “The Nose”: Objectlessness in the Megapolis

Panelist:          Colleen McQuillen, Columbia University

Title: The Ukrainian Morality Play as Gogol's Didactic Compass in Dead Souls
Discussant: Edyta Bojanowska, Harvard University

 

28A-3 Panel: Illness in Literature and Culture

Panel Chair: Catherine O’Neil, University of Denver

Panelist: Tetyana Varenychenko, Holy Family University (OP)

Title: Chekhov’s Story “Sleepy”: A Case Study of a Child Living in an Abusive Environment

Panelist:          Mary Delle LeBeau, University of Southern California

Title: From Consumption To Tuberculosis In Late 19th Century Russian Letters

Panelist:          Frederick H. White, Memorial University

Title: Diary of a Madman: Leonid Andreev’s Melancholic Moods

Panelist:          Benjamin M. Sutcliffe, Miami University

Title: The Chronotope of the Alcoholic in Venedikt Erofeev’s Moskva-Petushki

 

28A-4 Panel: Platonov and Early Soviet Literary Culture

Panel Chair: Eric Laursen, University of Utah
Panelist: 
Jennifer E. Sunseri, Texas Tech University

Title: Evgenii Zamiatin and Andrei Platonov: The Benefactor and the Logos

Panelist:          Lenka Pankova, University of Pittsburgh

Title: The New Woman That Was Not: Andrei Platonov’s Moskva Chestnova

Panelist:          Keith Blasing, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Title: Platonov’s Sokrovennyi chelovek and the Road to Chevengur

 

28A-5 Panel: Historical Developments in East Slavic
Panel Chair:
Daniela Hristova, University of Chicago

Panelist:          Matthew Feeney, University of Kansas

Title: Slavic Ethnonyms in the Reconstruction of Proto-Slavic and the Process of Naming

Panelist:          Miriam Shrager, Indiana University (OP)

Title: Reflexes of AP-D in Northwest Russian Dialects

Panelist:          Hakyung Jung, Harvard University

Title: On the development of the Perfect Participial Constructions in Northwest Russian

 

28A-6 Panel: Particles
Panel Chair:
George Fowler, Indiana University

Panelist: Maya Bringe, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Screen)

Title: A Russian Particle on the Periphery: xot'

Panelist:          Eun-ji Song, Seoul National University

Title: Topic-Marking Particle –TO and Scalar Implicature

Panelist: Hyug Ahn, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Screen)

Title: Additional Information Introduced by -ся in Russian

 

28A-7 Panel: Issues in the Language Teaching Theory

Panel Chair: Eloise Boyle, Independent Scholar

Panelist: Nataliia Sinichkina, Pushkin Institute of Russian Language

Title: Технология учебного диалога на занятиях по методике преподавания русского языка

Panelist: Georgii Khruslov, Pushkin Institute of Russian Language

Title: Teaching Russian among Other Languages of the Russian Federation

Panelist:          Richard Robin, George Washington University

Title: Legitimizing Semi-Authenticity

 

28A-8 Forum: “Rossija v kontekste”: A Content-Based Coursepack and Web Materials for Teaching Advanced Russian (CP)

Forum Presenters

Jason A Merrill, Michigan State University

Irina Agafonova, Michigan State University

David Prestel, Michigan State University

 


December 28        SessionB: 10:15-12:15

28B-1 Panel: Dostoevsky’s Later Fiction

Panel Chair: Marina Balina, Illinois Weslyan University

Panelist:          Michael Katz, Middlebury College

Title: Stepan Verkhovensky’s “Dangerous” Poem in Dostoevsky’s Devils

Panelist:          Guru Paran Gunaratnam, Independent Scholar

Title: Double-endedness in Dostoevsky

Panelist:          Ioan Onujec, Independent Scholar

Title: The Ontology of Nonbeing in The Brothers Karamazov

Panelist:          James L Rice, University of Oregon

Title: Dostoevsky's Endgame: The Projected Sequel to The Brothers Karamazov

 

28B-2 Round Table: Babel’s Odessa

Roundtable Chair: Janneke van de Stadt, Williams College
Roundtable Discussants

Rebecca J. Stanton, Barnard College

Emma Lieber, Columbia University

Barry Scherr, Dartmouth College

Andrei Malaev-Babel, Stanislavsky Theater Studio

 

28B-3 Panel: Soviet Cinema from the 1950s to the 1970s

Panel Chair: Yuri Leving, The George Washington University

Panelist:          Marina Madorskaya, University of Michigan (TV/DVD and VCR)

Title: The End of the Typical Hero: Aleksei Batalov in the films of Iosif Kheifits.

Panelist:          Jason A Merrill, Michigan State University

Title: Shepit’ko’s Voskhozhdenie: Christian Imagery and the Link with Dostoevsky

Panelist:          Robert Efird, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Title: Artists and Fools: Iurodstvo in Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev

Panelist:          Raisa V Solovyova, Brigham Young University (TV/DVD)

Title: Tarkovsky’s (Un)Realized Films

 

28B-4 Panel: The Language of Early Slavic Manuscripts

Panel Chair: David J. Birnbaum, University of Pittsburgh

Panelist:          Irina Barclay, Appalachian State University

Title: Tver's Spiritual Testaments as a Linguistic Source of the Russian Language

Panelist:          Alexander Kulik, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Title: Retroversion as a Tool of Interpretation

Panelist:          Natalia Fedorovskaya, Far-Eastern State Technical University, Vladivostok

Title: A New Method for Analyzing Text-music Relationships in Russian Sacred Compositions

 

28B-5 Panel: Slavic Aspect and Grammar in Context
Panel Chair:
Steven Clancy, University of Chicago

Panelist:          Susan Kresin, University of California, Los Angeles and Stephen Dickey, University of Kansas

Title: Aspect and Negation in Czech and Russian (in pdf format)

Panelist: Laura Janda, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Screen)

Title: Constraints on the Formal Structure of Russian Verb Clusters

Panelist: Nicholas LeBlanc, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Screen)

Title: Another Look at Secondary Homogenizations in Russian

Panelist:          Masako Fidler, Brown University

Title: Sound Symbolism and Grammar in Czech: A Cognitive Approach

 

28B-6 Round Table: Teaching Russian at the Pre-College Level

Roundtable Chair: Todd Golding

Roundtable Discussants

Jane Shuffelton, Brighton HS, Rochester, NY

Elizabeth Sandstrom, Thomas Jefferson High School of Science and
Technology, VA

Elena Farkas, Turnagain Elementary School, Alaska

 

28B-7 Forum: Pedagogical Considerations for Developing Online Listening Lessons for Russian Intermediate and Advanced Learners (CP)

Forum Presenters

Natalia Antokhin, Defense Language Institute

Richard Mayer, Defense Language Institute

 

 


December 28        Session C:1:30-3:30PM

28C-1 Round Table: Undergraduate Slavic Programs

Roundtable Chair: Lena Lencek, Reed College

Roundtable Discussants

Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College

Marina Balina, Illinois Weslyan University

William Comer, University of Kansas
Ilya Vinitsky, University of Pennsylvania

 

28C-2 Panel: North American Pushkin Society

Panel Chair: Elizabeth Blake, Saint Louis University

Panelist:          Larissa Bondarchuk, Ohio State University

Title: Anchar through the Prism of Structuralism

Panelist:          Zaur V Agayev, Princeton University

Title: The Influence of Barry Cornwall and the Phenomenon of Polygenesis in Alexander Pushkin’s “The Little House in Kolomna”

Panelist: Joseph Peschio, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Title: Once More about Rodzianko, Pushkin, and The Green Lamp

Panelist: Luba Golburt, Stanford University

Title: The Labyrinthine House of History: Pushkin’s Queen of Spades and Lazhechnikov’s House of Ice

 

28C-3 Panel: Tolstoy

Panel Chair: Slava Yastremski, Bucknell University

Panelist: Tatiana Kuzmic, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Title: The Slavonic Question and the Dismembered Adulteress

Panelist:          Edgar L. Castillo, California State University, Fresno

Title: Tolstoy’s Resurrection: Man as Individual

Panelist:          Nicholas K. Kupensky, Bucknell University

Title: “Death was Defiance”: Being, Suicide and the Threshold of Knowledge in Mrs. Dalloway and Anna Karenina

 

28C-4 Panel: Urban Text in Slavic Context

Panel Chair: Olga Matich, University of California, Berkeley

Panelist:          Julie A. Buckler, Harvard University

Title: Placing the Past in a Frame: The Paradoxical Practice of Looking Back at Late Imperial St. Petersburg in Photographs and Picture Postcards

Panelist:          Thomas Seifrid, University of Southern California

Title: Gods in the Streets: The Mystery Genre and Urban Space in Early Soviet Culture

Panelist:          Polina Barskova, University of California, Berkeley

Title: Slums of Leningrad: Observing the Uneasy Outburst of the Genre (1924-1934)

Panelist:          Brinton Tench Coxe, Columbia University

Title: Marketing Moscow: Vladimir Sorokin’s Ochered’ and Aleksandr Zel’dovich’s Moskva

Panel Discussant: Alexander Mihailovic, Hofstra University

 

28C-5 Panel: Literary Projections of Jewish-Russian Relations

Panel Chair: TBA

Panelist:          Evgenii Bershtein, Reed College

Title: Revolution, Sex, and Jewish Masculinity in Eduard Bagritsky’s “February”

Panelist:          Marat Grinberg, University of Chicago

Title: Boris Slutsky's Jewish Linguistics: The Notions of Yiddish and Hebrew in "Ya osvobozhdal Ukrainu..." and "Pereobuchenie odinochestvu..."

 

28C-6 Panel: Case

Panel Chair: Wayles Browne, Cornell University

Panelist: Steven Clancy, University of Chicago

Title: From Jakobson's Cube to Semantics Maps: Multidimensional Scaling and Slavic Case Semantics

Panelist:          Valery Solovyev, Kazan State University

Title: Combinability of Emotive Words with Case-Preposition Marks in Russian Language

Panelist:          Dana Akanova, University of Chicago

Title: On translating Ethical Datives in Russian and Macedonian

Panelist:          Mirjam Fried, Princeton University

Title: The Lithuanian dative of possession

 

28C-7 Panel: The Russian Advanced Placement (AP) Curriculum and Examination: Results of the 2004-5 Pilot Program and Prospects for 2006 and Beyond (Screen)

Panel Chair: Richard Brecht, University of Maryland

Panelist:          Maria Lekić, University of Maryland

Title: The Russian AP Examination Construct: Weighting and Integrating of L-2 Skills at the School-to-College Juncture

Panelist:          Camelot Marshall, American Councils

Title: The Russian AP Score Report: How it is Calculated, Implications for College Placement of Entering Freshmen

Panelist:          Ken Petersen, ACTR

Title: Russnet: Online Resources for Teaching a Russian AP Course

Panelist:          Jane Shuffelton, Brighton HS, Rochester, NY (OH)

Title: Performance Assessment Activities in the AP Russian Classroom

Panel Discussant: Elizabeth Sandstrom, Thomas Jefferson High School of Science and
Technology, VA

 

28C-8 Round Table: Czech, Polish, and Ukrainian: Strategies for Expanding Offerings

Roundtable Chair: Alexander Dunkel, University of Arizona

Roundtable Discussants

Susan Kresin, University of California, Los Angeles

John Leafgren, University of Arizona

Oksana Sachyk, Foreign Language Institute (Ottawa, Canada)

 

28C-9 Forum: Modern Russian Culture by Lauren G. Leighton (CP)

Forum Presenter: Slava Paperno, Cornell University

 


December 28        Session D: 3:45-5:45

28D-1 Round Table: New Paradigms in Literary and Cultural Theory

Roundtable Chair: Vladimir Alexandrov, Yale University

Roundtable Discussants

Caryl Emerson, Princeton University

Mikhail Epstein, Emory University

Svetlana Boym, Harvard University

Catharine Nepomnyashchy, Barnard College-Columbia University

 

28D-2 Panel: Readings of Crime and Punishment

Panel Chair: John Bartle, Hamilton College
Panelist: 
Brian R. Johnson, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Title: Economic Gender in Crime and Punishment

Panelist:          Nina Familiant, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Title: Crime in Absentia, Punishment in Praesentia: Raskol’nikov’s father

Panelist:          Lily Alexander, University of Toronto

Title: Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, and Hitchcock: The Motifs of Crime and Punishment on British, Russian and American Screen

 

28D-3 Panel: Polish Literature and Culture

Panel Chair: Andrzej Karcz, University of Kansas

Panelist:          Anna Frajlich-Zajac, Columbia University

Title: The Image of the Romantic Poet in the Making: Adam Mickiewicz and Walenty Wankowicz

Panelist:          Edward Manouelian, University of Texas, Austin

Title: Jews in The Promised Land

Panelist:          Magdalena Kay, University of California, Berkeley

Title: Questioning, Imagining, Mythologizing: “Lwów” in the Poetry of Adam Zagajewski

Panelist:          Kinga Maciejewska, University of Chicago

Title: Epistemic Responsibility and Literary Journalism in Modern Poland

 

28D-4 Panel: From Soviet Satire to Socialist Realism: Literature of the 1920s and 30s

Panel Chair: Yvonne Howell, University of Richmond
Panelist: 
Emily E. Schuckman, University of Washington

Title: The Smooth Operator Strikes Again: Ostap Bender as Bulgakov’s Woland

Panelist: Eric Laursen, University of Utah

Title: No Indecent Language Here!: Language and Control in Bulgakov’s Heart of a Dog

Panelist:          Viktoria Ivleva, Vassar College

Title: Literary Theory in Practice: Rethinking Tynianov’s The Wax Figure

Panelist:          Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College

Title: Putting the Truth to Work: The Socialist Literary Subtext in Lidija Chukovskaja’s Sof’ja Petrovna

 

28D-5 Panel: Russian and East European Expatriates in Film and Theatre (TV/VCR and DVD)

Panel Chair: Klawa N. Thresher, Randolph-Macon Woman's College

Panelist:          Steven P. Hill, University of Illinois (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Title: “Not To Be Confused With”: Name and Title Difficulties in Emigre Cinema

Panelist:          Richard Stites, Georgetown University

Title: Hungarian Cinema Expatriates Before and After Summer 1919

Panelist:          Allison Comins-Richmond, Independent Scholar

Title: Nazimova/Lewton: The Film Dynasty That Might Have Been

Panel Discussant: John Rimberg, Narva-Joesuu Keskkool, Estonia

 

28D-6 Panel: Literature in Its Social and Political Dimensions

Panel Chair:   Ilya Vinitsky, University of Pennsylvania

Panelist:          Vadim Shkolnikov, Columbia University

Title: Reality and Sotsial’nost’: The Civilizing Mission of Belinsky’s Natural School

Panelist:          Rolf Hellebust, University of Calgary

Title: Russian Anti-Literature and the Anti-Hero

Panelist:          Kathleen Parthe, University of Rochester

Title: Writers And Citizens In Russia: Whose Voice Is It?

Panelist:          Alexandra Kostina, Rhodes College

Title: “In the Beginning Was the Word”: Logocentricity of the Russian Mentality

 

28D-7 Panel: Lexicon and Semantics

Panel Chair: Elena Shmeleva

Panelist: Valentina Apresjan, Russian Language Institute, Moscow, Russia

Title: A perfect soul in a perfect body: different conceptualizations of physical and spiritual phenomena in language

Panelist:          Olga Yoshizumi, Brown University

Title: Discourse-semantics of Borrowed Words in Russian after Perestroika

Panelist:          Jeff Holdeman, Indiana University

Title: Lexical evidence of the homeland of the Russian Believers in Erie, Pennsylvania

Panelist:          Boris Iomdin, V.V.Vinogradov Russian Language Institute

Title: The Notion of Understanding in Russian and English

 

28D-8 Panel: Linguistics and Pedagogy

Panel Chair: Meghan Murphy-Lee, University of Arizona

Panelist:          Victoria Driagina, Pennsylvania State University

Title: About Muzhik-babushka, Six-year-old Zhenshchina and the Like: The Role of Conceptual Fluency in Advanced Proficiency Attainment

Panelist: Jeanette Owen, Arizona State University

Title: Russian request speech acts and the art of persuasion

Panelist:          Maria Shardakova, Bryn Mawr College

Title: Teaching Pragmatics to American Learners of Russian

Panelist:          Jane Hacking, University of Utah

Title: Can Explicit Instruction Improve Socio-Pragmatic Competence?

 

28D-9 Forum: V puti: Second Edition

Forum Presenters

Frank Miller, Columbia University

Anna Kudyma, University of California, Los Angeles (CP)

David Gasperetti, University of Notre Dame

Lynne deBenedette, Brown University

 

 


December 28        Session E: 7:00-9:00PM

28E-1 Special Event: Russian Poetry Reading

Chair: Andrey Gritsman, Independent Scholar

Poets

Polina Barskova, California

Ina Bliznetsova, New York

Dmitry Bobyshev, Illinois

Vladimir Gandelsman, New York

Bakhyt Kenzheev, Montreal, Canada

Irina Mashinskaya, New Jersey

Ian Probstein, New York

Yevgeny Slivkin, California

Grigory Starikovsky, New Jersey

 

28E-2 Special Event: Legacies of Robert Maguire

Chair: Irina Reyfman, Columbia University

Discussants

Carol Ueland, Drew University

William Mills Todd III, Harvard University

Judith Kornblatt, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Margo Rosen, Columbia University

Emily Johnson, University of Oklahoma

Andrew Durkin, IndianaUniversity

 

26E-3 Panel: Elena Guro and St. Petersburg in Twentieth-Century Russian Literature (OP)

Panel Chair: Rolf Hellebust, University of Calgary

Panelist: Adele Di Ruocco, University of Southern California

Title: The Notion of “Impressionism” in Russian Aesthetic Criticism and in the Works of Elena Guro.

Panelist: Milica Banjanin, Washington University

Title: Urban Montage in Blok and Guro: From Baudelaire to Eisenstein

Panelist: Juliette Stapanian Apkarian, Emory University (CP)

Title: Eyeing the City: The Early Work of Elena Guro and Natal’ia Goncharova

Panelist: Marina Alexandrova, University of Texas, Austin

Title: Nature and the City in Elena Guro’s ‘Organic’ Futurism

Panel Discussant: Inna Tigountsova, University of Victoria

 


December 29        Session A: 8:00-10:00AM

29A-1 Panel: The Life and Death of the Hero

Panel Chair: Angela Brintlinger, Ohio State University

Panelist:          Inna Caron, Ohio State University

Title: The Hero is Dead – Long Live the Hero: Boleslaw Prus’s Response to the Russian Realists

Panelist:          Justin Weir, Harvard University

Title: Hadji Murad, Violence, and Narrative

Panelist:          William Nickell, University of California, Santa Cruz

Title: Quietus of the Hero: Suicide as Rhetoric

Panelist:          Matthew P. McGarry, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Title: From Hero to Person: Narrative and the Development of Self in Andrej Bitov’s Pushkin House

Discussant: Rolf Hellebust, University of Calgary

 

29A-2 Panel: The North American Chekhov Society

Panel Chair: Robert Louis Jackson, Yale University

Panelist:          Radislav Lapushin, University of Chicago

Title: The Poetry of Prose: The Motif of Clouds in Chekhov’s “Beauties”

Panelist:          Yanina Arnold, University of South Carolina

Title: Space and Self in Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters

Panelist:          Carol Flath, Duke University

Title: How is More Better: Chekhov’s Letters in English Translation

Panel Discussant: Michael Finke, Washington University

 

29A-3 Panel: Osip Mandelshtam

Panel Chair: Elena Glazov-Corrigan, Emory University

Panelist: Patrick Henry, University of California, Berkeley

Title: The Church With Five Cupolas: The Lessons of Lowell’s Adaptations of Mandelstam

Panelist:          Tom Dolack, University of Oregon

Title: Mandel'shtam's Nightingale and Literary Ventriloquism

Panelist:          Marilena Ruscica, Stanford University

Title: Iazyk prostranstva: Dante and Mandelstam’s Geography of Exile

Panelist:          Victoria Thorstensson, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Title: Echoes of Pushkin’s Journey to Arzrum in Mandelstam’s Journey to Armenia

 

29A-4 Panel: Contemporary Russia and Its Reflections in Literature and Film

Panel Chair: Thomas Garza, University of Texas, Austin
Panelist: 
Eliot Borenstein, New York University

Title: Gratuitous Violence and Gratuitous Acts: Defining Bespredel

Panelist:          Gerald McCausland, University of Pittsburgh

Title: Miniseries Realism: Aleksandr Chervinskii’s Cinemanovel’ “Shishkin les”

Panelist:          Alexei Pavlenko, Colorado College

Title: Senchin’s Satiric “I”

 

29A-5 Panel: Czech Literature, Film and Culture

Panel Chair: Masako Fidler, Brown University
Panelist: 
Kirsten Lodge, Columbia University

Title: Decadence for Marxism?: The Debate on Exploiting Literary Decadence for Radical Political Ends in 1890s Bohemia

Panelist:          Holly Raynard, University of Florida (TV/VCR)

Title: Living the Part: Heave Ho! We Want to Live! from Silver Screen to Social Sphere

Panelist:          Malynne Sternstein, University of Chicago

Title: Citizen Czech, or, the Dialectics of Genderlessness in Czech Surrealism

Panelist:          Christopher Harwood, Columbia University

Title: The Troubled Ecology of Ivan Klíma’s Love and Garbage

 

29A-6 Panel: Lithuanian Syntax

Panel Chair: Lydia Grebenyova, University of Maryland

Panelist: James Lavine, Bucknell University

Title: Repassivization in Lithuanian

Panelist:          Cori Anderson, Princeton University

Title: Oblique Passivization in Lithuanian

Panelist:          Leonard Babby, Princeton University

Title: Deriving Hybrid Verbal Categories: Evidence from the Comparison of Lithuanian and Russian

Panelist:          Steven Franks, Indiana University

Title: The Curious Case of Lithuanian Adjuncts (in pdf format)

 

29A-7 Panel: Corpus and Database Approaches to Linguistics

Panel Chair: Viktoriya Dragina, Pennsylvania State University
Panelist: 
E.A. Grishina; Rakhilina E.V., Institute of Russian language, Russian Academy of Sciences; VINITI, Russian Academy of Sciences

Title: Russian National Corpus (RNC): an Overview and Perspectives

Panelist: V. R. Bayrasheva, Kazan State University

Title: Baza dannyx po sochetaemosti emotivnoj leksiki v russkom jazyke

Panelist: Olga Nevzorova, Kazan State Pedagogical University
Title: Applied Problems of Functional Homonymy Disambiguation for Russian Language

 

29A-8 Roundtable: Current Trends in Spoken Russian
Roundtable Chairs:
Dan Davidson, Bryn Mawr College; Benjamin Rifkin, Temple University
Roundtable Discussants:
Liudmila Verbitskaia, Saint Petersburg State University
Vitalii Kostomarov, Pushkin Russian Language Institute
M. Remnev, Moscow State University

 

29 A-9 Forum: “Molodets!”: A Dynamic Application for Producing Language Exercises (CP)

Forum Presenters

David J. Galloway, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Kristin Peterson-Bidoshi, Union College

Kristen Welsh, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

 


December 29        Session B 11:00

Keynote: What's In a Name? The Linguistic and Cultural Boundaries of AATSEEL

Keynote Lecturer: Alexander M. Schenker, Yale University

 


December 29        Session C 1:30-3:30

29C-1 Round Table: Are We Post-Colonial?

Roundtable Chair: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University

Roundtable Discussants

Nancy Condee, University of Pittsburgh

Dragan Kujundzic, University of California, Irvine

Serguei Oushakine, Columbia University

Vitaly Chernetsky, Harvard University

Harsha Ram, University of California, Berkeley

 

29C-2 Panel: Revisiting Nikolai Karamzin’s Letters of a Russian Traveler

Panel Chair:   Aaron Beaver, Indiana University

Panelist:          Stiliana Milkova, University of California, Berkeley

Title: Ekphrastic Vision and Nikolai Karamzin’s Letters of a Russian Traveler

Panelist: Michael Wachtel, Princeton University

Title: Dichtung und Wahrheit in Karamzin’s Prose

 

29C-3 Panel: Russian Symbolism

Panel Chair: Maria Carlson, University of Kansas

Panelist:          Jonathan Stone, University of California, Berkeley

Title: The Literal Symbolist: Vladimir Solov’ev and the Initial Reception of Russian Symbolism

Panelist:          Daria O Solodkaia, Princeton Univeristy

Title: Andrei Bely’s Silver Dove In Light Of Plato’s Idea Of the Winged Soul

Panelist:          Jacob Emery, Harvard University

Title: The Language of Adam: Heredity and Metaphor in Andrei Bely’s Petersburg

Panelist:          David Borgmeyer, Independent Scholar (Slide Projector & screen)

Title: Wisdom’s Voice, Wisdom’s Body: Women and the Sophian Feminine in the Silver Age

 

29C-4 Panel: Marina Tsvetaeva’s Art

Panel Chair: Karen Evans-Romaine, Ohio University
Panelist: 
Viktor Finkel, Independent Scholar

Title: Музыкальная Компонента Поэзии Цветаевой